What should I do after completing my PhD? Should I pursue a position at a multinational corporation, or consider a postdoctoral fellowship instead? What other options are available to me?
These are questions that many doctoral candidates grapple with, often finding it challenging to navigate the next steps in their careers.
Over the past year, the Global Biotech Revolution, through the Voices of Tomorrow Competition 2024, has addressed these questions to help PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career professionals in STEM to better understand their career options (other than academia). We introduced three learning tracks—Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, and Consulting, where we invited CEOs, Managing Directors, Investors, etc., for an intensive 8-week program filled with weekly masterclasses, workshops, and mentoring sessions.
Together with Pablo Martínez Hernández in the Consulting Track, we organized engaging and informative masterclasses featuring esteemed speakers. We also paired the participants with exceptional mentors who provided valuable support for their case studies and pitches.
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all the masterclass speakers: Fabio La Mola (Bain and Co), Claudia Filsinger, Sarah Jarvis and Sunil John (ZS), Feras Mahdi MD, MPhil (LEK), Hensley Evans (ZS), and Jared Bennett Feiger (BCG). A special thanks to our panelists Delphine Nain Zurkiya and Sophie Vivienne Tinz, along with their amazing moderator, Tarquin Bennett-Coles. I also want to acknowledge our mentors: Bruce Press, Marco Travaglio, Malvika Verma Miller, Ph.D., Dr. Marc J. Brehme, MBA, Mohamed Ahmed, and Matteo Perucchini, as well as our judges, Samuel Edland and Harry Bickerstaffe, Erika Stanzl.
And of course, a heartfelt thank you to the entire entrepreneurship team: Francesco Marino, Dan Vulcanescu, Scott Clifford, Paula Ferrer Raventós, PhD, Klara Piletič, and Cristofer Rybner. Without your dedication, VoT 2024 would not have been a success. I look forward to collaborating with all of you on future GBR events (GS 2025, shall we?).
